Over the past several years, the field of medical genetics has continued to expand and is now impacting a broad range of medical care, mainly due to rapid advances in genetic technology and ...

Medical databases are undergoing rapid expansion, with the number of observed values and variable types continuously increasing, resulting in increasingly rich data content. This growth leads to a ...

WASHINGTON—The National Institutes of Health has begun recruiting volunteers for a $1.46 billion medical database that will eventually comprise data on more than one million people, an effort to ...

The legislation on the Icelandic genetic database provides for an opting-out system for the collection of encoded medical information from individual medical records. From the beginning this has ...

Amid a growing coronavirus crisis, experts in all fields have begun compiling massive datasets to track the impact of the contagion. These datasets capture everything from society-wide virus response ...

Healthcare has undergone dramatic revolutions over the last few decades with the introduction of technology. This is especially so with the collection of medical data using everyday objects such as ...

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption. The paper, due to be ...

In August 2016, the Australian government released to the public a data set containing the medical billing history of nearly three million persons: every procedure they had undergone or prescription ...

Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more.